brusca

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbɾus.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbɾus.ka]

brusca f sg

1. feminine singular of brusc

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrus.ka/
• Rhymes: -uska
• Hyphenation: brù‧sca

From Late Latin bruscus (“butcher's broom”), from brucus (“heather”).

brusca f (plural brusche, diminutive bruschétta (“dry twig”) or bruschìno (“scrubbing brush”))

1. scrubbing brush
2. synonym of coda cavallina
3. stubble or dried-up twig

• bruscare

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “brusque”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *buskaz, with influence from brusco.

brusca f (plural brusche, diminutive bruschétta)

1. (obsolete) straw
2. (historical) a flexible, graduated ruler used by shipbuilders

   Synonyms: busca, (obsolete) fraschia

Deverbal from bruscare (“to burn, toast”) +‎ -a.

brusca f (plural brusche)

1. (botany) scorch (desiccation of the apex of a leaf or shoot)

   Synonyms: abbruscatura, bruscatura

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

brusca

1. feminine singular of brusco

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

brusca

1. inflection of bruscare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• brusca¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

brusca

1. feminine singular of brusco

Borrowed from French brusquer.

a brusca (third-person singular present bruschează, past participle bruscat) 1st conjugation

1. to shove
2. (transitive) to rush (an operation)

Compare Italian brusca (“scrubbing brush”).

brusca f (plural bruschi)

1. scrubbing brush, especially one for grooming horses; a horsebrush

   Synonym: scupitta

• → Maltese: broxk

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “brusca”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 569
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “brùsca”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 119

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾuska/ [ˈbɾus.ka]
• Rhymes: -uska
• Syllabification: brus‧ca

brusca

1. feminine singular of brusco

• buscar, cubras